HELOISE 1847

The HELIOSE (476 tons) under Captain Jan Beckmann, left Bremen on October 12, 1846 - a ship chartered by Eduard Delius
(the emigration agent for South Australia in Bremen) and arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia on March 17 1847.
It had five passengers in the cabin; and in the steerage 62 male adults, 38 married women, six female servants and 103 children.
The ship was well provisioned with provisions, and even potatoes were served out to the passengers for 50 days after sailing.
Cargo of the HELOISE, from Bremen - 10 pieces battens, 140 planks, 2 piano-fortes, 2 cases and 1 package, 40 cases wine".

Nuremberg (Bavaria) September 1846.
A few days ago a very affecting scene took place here, which deserves to be generally made known with all its particulars. A number of friends and fellow-students accompanied Dr. Bayer to this place, who purposes establishing himself in New Holland.
This decision is the consequence of having received official intimation from the Bavarian Government that he can never calculate upon receiving any appointment in this country. The grounds for this exclusion is the exhibition of a degree of moral firmness in Dr Bayer, such as is seldom met with in young men.
He had been suspected of having professionally attended a duel between two students, in which one of the combatants received a wound of which he died within a few hours afterwards. Dr Bayer did not deny his professional assistance on the occasion, but when he was called upon to name the party who had inflicted the mortal wound, he firmly refused to do so. He endured with fortitude the heavy fines to which he was three times condemned, but, in spite of every threat, he adhered steadfastly to his first declaration. By that means he saved the surviving principal, the seconds and the witnesses from punishment.

The Bavarian Government persisted in their determination that Dr Bayer should be altogether excluded from any public employment. In consequence of which that gentleman made up his mind to emigrate to New Holland. The departure of this very estimable young man, equally so in regard to the firmness of his character and his general disposition, and to his practical attainments, was exceedingly affecting.

The Editor of the Bremen newspaper adds in a note, subjoined to the above extract, that Dr Bayer, whose acquaintance he had made, and to whom he describes as an excellent, talented and practical man, was about to sail for Adelaide in the HELOISE, in the capacity of surgeon. We hope the worthy doctor will be soon as much pleased that he has selected South Australia for his new home, as all his fellow-countyrmen who have already settled there.


The SOUTH AUSTRALIAN on March 19th 1847 reported "The arrival of three large ships from Europe within the present week - two of them with emigrants numbering
in all upwards of four hundred souls - has been hailed with great satisfaction by the colonists. The Bremen ship HELOISE brings a large number of the better class of
the German peasantry. They have all paid their own passage, and they bring, we are informed, more money than the emigrant ship has for years imported.
They are healthy, and respectable people, and we doubt not they will do well".

"... The Bremen ship HELOISE, Captain Beckmann, 155 days from Bremen. Passengers - Dr. Bayer, Physician to the ship, Messrs. Menkens, Doussa, Beddies, Monikes, Pappe, and 198 others, viz: 1 mason, 1 shoemaker, 1 gold and silver smith, 1 butcher and sausage-maker, 1 miller, 1 cloth weaver, 2 cabinet makers, 40 farmers and labourers, 14 miners, 6 female servants, 38 married women and 103 children ... - a total of 214. We understand also that the HELOISE brings Mr Meyer, a gentleman who came out to the colony by the last vessel from Germany, and is now established as a merchant in Adelaide, the credentials of his appointment as Consul in South Australia for the Kingdom of Hanover."

A report in the ADELAIDE OBSERVER on March 20 1847 states "On board the HELOISE from Bremen there were six births and six deaths, namely four young children,
an aged woman named Anna Roena Sighdon (in her 85th year), and a young sailor named Pelser Kerter, aged 20, who fell overboard before the ship was under canvas ..."

No official passenger list exists. The only passenger list that exists for the HELOISE was published in the ADELAIDE REGISTER on March 24th 1847 and gives their occupations and other information as well. This list has been expanded to include the work of HFW Proeve which appears in With Pride, The Menzels of Hoffnungsthal 1847-1984 (originally appeared in The Lutheran Yearbook of 1974). This 'new' list is as follows:
CABIN PASSENGERS:
      Dr. BAYER - Surgeon, Mr BEDDIES, - merchant from Hamburgh,
      Mr V DOUSSA - agriculturalist from Prussia (this could be Von Doussa) and D. DOUSSA,
      Mr MENKENS, - merchant from Oldenburg, Mr MENKENS, Mr MEYER (Consul for the Kingdom of Hanover)
      PAPPE, Mr - merchant from Hamburgh
STEERAGE PASSENGERS:

  AUDERS / ANDERS, Mr (Cabinet maker)
  BIERWORTH, Mr
  BOCK, Mr (miner) and wife and 4 children
  CALLE, Mr (miner)
  DREYER, Mr (miner) mother, cousin and 2 children
  DUNEKE, Mr and wife
  FERNHABER, Mr - gold and silver smith - and wife and 2 children
  FISCHER, Mr (miner) and wife and 3 children
  FLASENBEURG, -- a servant (to Mr Christ. Nuske's family)
  GOPP - two brothers (miners)
  GREEN, George (an experienced farmer) and wife
  HARMS, Anna - young widow and cook
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Johann Georg Heinrich 60, born 1786 from Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Anna Christine/Christian nee BAUM 45, born 1801 and children)
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Johann Friedrich born 1820 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Gottfried born 1824 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Anna Rosina born 1826 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Caroline born 1832 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Anna Elizabeth 12 (daughter of above)
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Friedrich Wilhelm born 1836 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Carl August born 1839 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Christine born 1840 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HEUSLER / HAUSLER, Julianne born 1842 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HERBERGER, Mr (miner) and wife
  HERMANN - 2 brothers (labourers)
  HOFMAN, Mr (miner) and wife
  HOLFS, Mr and wife child
  HUBNER, Mr (Cabinet maker) and wife and 2 children
  HUFF, Johann (born January 1803) from Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  HUFF, Anna Christina nee Grüning (born May 1812) and 4 children
  HUF, August (born on voyage near the Cape of Good Hope)
  KEAN, Mr and wife and 2 children
  KERTER, Pelser (crew) died aged 20
  KIRCHNER, Mr and wife and 3 children
  KLEINITZ / KLIENTZ, Mr and wife child
  KREIG, Charles/Carl Ferdinand born 1816 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  KREIG, Anna Elisabeth (nee Leske) born 1827 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  KREIG, Pauline born 1844 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  KRIEG, John/Johann born Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  KRIEG, Anna Julianna (nee Huf, formerly Hermann) and 5 children
  LESKE, Samuel Gottfried Johann born 1802 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  LESKE, Anna Dorothea (nee Mibus) born 1801
  LESKE, Anna Elisabeth born 1827 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  LESKE, Gottfried Johann born 1831 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  LESKE, Anna Paulina born 1836 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  LESKE, Samuel Gottfried Johann born 1843 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  LESKE, Anna Julianna born 1842 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  LINDNER, Mr and wife and 2 children
  LORENZ, Anna - young unmarried woman (daughter of Ossig ?)
  LORENZ, Ossig - father and 4 grown up sons
  MACKZOWIACK / CAVIAC, Mr and wife child
  (this is actually Mackzowiack)
  MARTIN, Mr and wife child
  MENGLER - two brothers (miners)
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Christian (55) born 1791 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL,Anna Dorothea RICHTER (2nd wife of Christian)
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Johann Gottlieb (24) born 1823 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Michael (21) born 1826 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Johann (17) born 1829 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Wilhelm (14) born 1833 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Daniel (13) born 1834 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Carl/Karl August (10) born 1837 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Anna Elisabeth (8) born 1839 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Pauline (8) born 1839 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Emilie (5) born 1842 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Friedrich (3) born 1844 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MENZEL / MENGEL, Maria Dorothea (nee Richter) born Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  (Christian's sister may also come too)
  MIBUS, Mr born 1816, Nekla-Hauland, Posen Hochkirch,
  MIBUS, Dorothea (nee Huf) born 1816 and 3 children
  MIBUS / NEBUS, Gottlieb (marble mason) born 1807 Nekla-Hauland, Posen,
  and brother-in-law (not named)
  MIBUS / NEBUS, Anna Juliane (nee Nuske) born 1812 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  MONIKES, Mr - labourer
  NUSKE / NOSKE, Joseph Christian born 1802 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  (servant Falsenberg listed separately)
  NUSKE / NOSKE, Henriette (nee Graeger) born 1818 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  NUSKE / NOSKE, Friedrich born 1833 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  NUSKE / NOSKE, Carl born 1835 Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  NUSKE / NOSKE, Christoph and wife and 4 children
  (two families ? SA REGISTER listed them twice)
  NUSKE / NOSKE, Samuel 47(also recorded as SAMUEL, Johann,
  his wife Anna Rosina and their three children)
  NUSKE / NOSKE, Anna Rosina 41 (wife of Samuel) and 3 children
  ORDEMANN / ODERMANN, Mr - butcher and sausage maker
  OLANE, August - librarian - and wife and 3 children
  OLANE, Geager/George - labourer
  RATKA, Mr and wife and 3 children
  SCHACH, Mr (miller) and wife
  SCHACH, sisters - unmarried and no mention of the number of them
  SCHLAMELGER, Mr (miner) and wife and 2 children
  SCHOENING / SCHOENIG, Mr - shoemaker
  SCHULZ, Johann Samuel born 1814, Neu Borui, Posen Hochkirch (experienced farmer)
  SCHULZ, Anna Rosina (nee Mueller) born 1821, Posen Hochkirch,
  SCHULZ, Juliane born 1841, Posen Hochkirch,
  SCHULZ, Caroline born 1843, Posen d 1850, Hoffnungsthal, SA
  SCHULZ, Johann August born 1845, Pose Hochkirch,
  SCHULTZ, Mr (mason)
  SEMMLER Johann 34 from Bremen, Germany
  SEMMLER Anna Dorothea (nee Seifert) 34 from Bremen, Germany - wife of Johann
  SEMMLER, Gottlieb (7) born Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  SEMMLER, Ludwig (6) born Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  SEMMLER, Juliane (5) born Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  SEMMLER, Friedrich (1) born Nekla-Hauland, Posen
  SIGNDON, Anna Roena (died on voyage, in her 85th year)
  SOFT, Mr and wife
  SPARE, August (miner from Clausthal) and wife
  SPARE, Henry (miner from Clausthal) and wife and 2 children
  TIERSCH, G and wife
  TIERSCH, W and wife and child
  WILKOWSKY / WILKOWSKI, Mr and wife
  WRUCK, Mr (cloth weaver)
  ZADOW, --and 4 children
1847 June 24th: Recently arrived German immigrants from Posen off the HELOISE, took up Sections 567 and 568, containing 740 acres, at an annual rental of 6/- per acre.
The land was leased from George Fife Angas.